{"id":45121,"date":"2018-01-04T22:07:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T22:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=45121"},"modified":"2018-02-21T15:15:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T15:15:40","slug":"enroll-now-for-new-auto-tech-training-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/01\/04\/enroll-now-for-new-auto-tech-training-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Enroll now for new auto-tech training program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enrollment is now open for a new automotive technology training program beginning spring 2018. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Honda Professional Automotive Career Training (PACT) program provides additional automotive technology career certifications. Students gain hands-on experience with vehicle maintenance, diagnostics, and repair. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt immediately prepares students for advancement,\u201d says Mike Shoebroek, department chair. \u201cThey work with the latest technologies in Honda and Acura vehicles and when they graduate they have the advanced skills employers are looking for at those dealerships.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The two-year program includes 10 unique Honda and Acura certifications taught by Honda-certified instructors and the ability to earn at least two Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) certifications through the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence. Participants receive factory training credit. No previous experience is required.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Classes are available at Riverside and Round Rock campuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information, visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/degrees-and-certificates\/areas-of-study\/design-manufacturing-construction-and-applied-technologies\/automotive-technology-and-outdoor-powered-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">austincc.edu\/accautotech<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or contact Shoebroek at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:mshoebro@austincc.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mshoebro@austincc.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or professor David Chavez by phone at 512-223-0374. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enrollment is now open for a new automotive technology training program beginning spring 2018. The Honda Professional Automotive Career Training (PACT) program provides additional automotive technology career certifications. Students gain hands-on experience with vehicle maintenance, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/01\/04\/enroll-now-for-new-auto-tech-training-program\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":44733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,1],"tags":[1758,1615,1760],"class_list":["post-45121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-students","category-news-and-announcements","category-updates","tag-auto-tech","tag-automotive-technology","tag-honda-professional-automotive-career-training-pact"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}